GRE Word List
AVOCATION
a subordinate occupation pursued in addition to one's vocation especially for enjoyment : hobby
The meaning of the word avocation is a subordinate occupation pursued in addition to one's vocation especially for enjoyment : hobby.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| discursive | moving from topic to topic without order : rambling |
| celerity | rapidity of motion or action |
| discomfit | to put into a state of perplexity and embarrassment : disconcert |
| thresh | to separate seed from (a harvested plant) mechanically |
| jaded | fatigued by overwork : exhausted |
| fraught | full of or accompanied by something specified |
| languish | to be or become feeble, weak, or enervated |
| unilateral | done or undertaken by one person or party |
| sibylline | any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy) |
| clot | a portion of a substance adhering together in a thick nondescript mass (as of clay or gum) |